Posted by Cindy W on April 7, 2000, at 22:06:02
In reply to Re: treatments, posted by boB on April 7, 2000, at 11:54:25
> Mental diseases occur across cultures, but they occur with greater frequency and intensity in some cultures. The conclusion that mental diseases are medical problems evades a common reality to medical problems, and that is that things cause medical problems. Oxygen treats the ill effects of prolonged tobbacco use, but smoking is the underlying problem. The DSM-IV nomenclature allows practitioners to isolate the result and not to consider underlying causes.
A lot of information about medication is disseminated on this board and I think that's appropriate. Having taken antidepressant medications for about 28 years, for major depression and OCD, I have found them invaluable and indispensable to keep me from offing myself and to help me get my energy up to undertake other therapies (talk therapy, exercise--well, at least some!, hobbies, work, proper nutrition, etc.).
poster:Cindy W
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